Same question as Luke’s. I probably would have jumped at it, if only to make seed money to sponsor other useful projects, like the following.
I have a standing offer to make hi-def (1080) video interviews, documentaries, etc and competent, penetrating Q and A sessions and documentaries with key, relevant players and theoreticians in AI and related work. This includes individual thinkers, labs, Google’s AI work, the list is endless.
I have knowledge of AI, general comp sci, consideralble knowledge of neuroscience, the mind-body problem (philosophically understood in GREAT detail—college honors thesis at UCB was on that) and deep, long-term evolutionary knowledge of all the big neurophilosphy players’ theories.
These players include but are not limited to Dennett, Searle, Dreyfus, Turing, as well as modern players too numerous to mention, plus some under-discussed people like the LBL quantum physicist Henry Stapp (quantum zeno effect and it’s relation to the possibility of consciousness and free will, whose papers I have been following assiduously for 15 years and think are absolutely required reading for anyone in this business.)
I have also closely followed Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose’s “Orch OR” theory—which has just been vindicated by major experimentsrefuting the long-running, standard objection to the possibility of quantum intra-neuronal processes (the objection based upon purportedly almost immediate, unavoidable, quantum decoherence caused by the warm, wet, noisy brain milleu) -- an objection Hameroff, Penrose, occasionally Max Tegmark (who has waxed and waned a bit over the last 15 years on this one, as I read his comments all over the web) and others, have mathematically dealth with for years, but has lacked—until just this last year empirical support.
Said support is now there—and with with some fanfare, I might add, within the nich scientific and philosophical mind-body and AI theoretic community that follows this work. Experiments vindicate core aspects of this theory (although do not confirm the Platonic qualia aspect.)
Worth digressing, though… for those who see this message.… so I will mention that, just as a physiological, quantum computational-theoretic account of how the brain does what it does … particularly how it implements dendritic processing (spatial and temporal summation, triggers to LTP, inter-neuron gap junction transience, etc.) which (the dendritic tree) is by consensus the neuronal locus of the bulk of neurons’ integrate and fire desicion making, this Orch OR theory is amazing in its implications. (Essentially it squares the entire synaptic-level information processing aggregate estimate, of the brain as a whole, for starters! I think this is destined to be a nobel prize-level theory eventually.)
I know Hameroff on a formerly first name basis contact, and could, though it’s been a couple years, rapidly trigger his memory of who I am—he held me in good stead -- and I could get an on-tape detailed interview with him at any time.
Point is.… I have a standing offer to create detailed and theoretically competent—thus relevant interviews and discussions -- documentaries, edit them professionally, make them available on DVD, or trnascode them for someone’s branded You Tube channel (like MIRI, for example.)
I got this idea, when I was watching an early interview at Google with Kurzweil, by some 2x year-old bright-eyed google-ite employee, who was asking the most shallow, immature, clueless questions!
(I thought at the time—“jeeze, is this the best they can find to plumb Kurzweil’s thinking on the future of AI at Google, or in general?”)
Anyway, no one has taken me up on that offer to create what could be terrific documentary-interviews, either. I have a 6 thousand dollar digital camera and professional editing software to do this with, not some pocket camera.
But more importantly, I have 25 years of detailed study of the mind body problem and AI, and I can draw upon that to make interviews that COUNT, are unique, and relevant, and unparalleled.
AI is my life’s work (that, and the co-entailed problem of mind-body theory generally.) I have been working hard to supplant the Turing test with something that tests for consciousness, instead of relies on the positiivistic denial of the existence of consciousness qua consciousness, beyond behavior. That test came out of an intellectual soil that was dominated with positivism, which in turn was based on a mistaken and defective attempt to metabolize the Newtonian to Quantum phsical transition.
It’s partly based on a scientific ontology that is fundamentally false, and has been demonstrably so for 100 years—Newton’s deterministic clockwork universe model that has no room for “consciousness”, only physical behavior—and partly based on an incomplete attempt to intellectually metabolize the true lessons of quantum theory (please see Henry Stapp’s papers , on his “stapp files” LBL website, for a crystal clear set of expositions of this point.)
No takers yet. So maybe I will have to go kickstarter too, and do these documentaries myself, on my own branded you Tube channel. (It will be doing a great service to countless thinkers to have GOOD q and a with their peers. I am not without my own original questions about their theories, that I would like to ask, as well.)
Seems easier if I could get an exisitng organization like MIRI or even AAAI to sponsor my work, however. (I’d also like to cover the AAAI turing test conference in January in Texas, and do this, but need sponsorship at this point, because I am not independently wealthy. I am forming a general theory, from which I think the keynote speaker’s Turing Test 2 “Lovelace 2.0” might actually be a derivable correllate.)
Same question as Luke’s. I probably would have jumped at it, if only to make seed money to sponsor other useful projects, like the following.
I have a standing offer to make hi-def (1080) video interviews, documentaries, etc and competent, penetrating Q and A sessions and documentaries with key, relevant players and theoreticians in AI and related work. This includes individual thinkers, labs, Google’s AI work, the list is endless.
I have knowledge of AI, general comp sci, consideralble knowledge of neuroscience, the mind-body problem (philosophically understood in GREAT detail—college honors thesis at UCB was on that) and deep, long-term evolutionary knowledge of all the big neurophilosphy players’ theories.
These players include but are not limited to Dennett, Searle, Dreyfus, Turing, as well as modern players too numerous to mention, plus some under-discussed people like the LBL quantum physicist Henry Stapp (quantum zeno effect and it’s relation to the possibility of consciousness and free will, whose papers I have been following assiduously for 15 years and think are absolutely required reading for anyone in this business.)
I have also closely followed Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose’s “Orch OR” theory—which has just been vindicated by major experiments refuting the long-running, standard objection to the possibility of quantum intra-neuronal processes (the objection based upon purportedly almost immediate, unavoidable, quantum decoherence caused by the warm, wet, noisy brain milleu) -- an objection Hameroff, Penrose, occasionally Max Tegmark (who has waxed and waned a bit over the last 15 years on this one, as I read his comments all over the web) and others, have mathematically dealth with for years, but has lacked—until just this last year empirical support.
Said support is now there—and with with some fanfare, I might add, within the nich scientific and philosophical mind-body and AI theoretic community that follows this work. Experiments vindicate core aspects of this theory (although do not confirm the Platonic qualia aspect.)
Worth digressing, though… for those who see this message.… so I will mention that, just as a physiological, quantum computational-theoretic account of how the brain does what it does … particularly how it implements dendritic processing (spatial and temporal summation, triggers to LTP, inter-neuron gap junction transience, etc.) which (the dendritic tree) is by consensus the neuronal locus of the bulk of neurons’ integrate and fire desicion making, this Orch OR theory is amazing in its implications. (Essentially it squares the entire synaptic-level information processing aggregate estimate, of the brain as a whole, for starters! I think this is destined to be a nobel prize-level theory eventually.)
I know Hameroff on a formerly first name basis contact, and could, though it’s been a couple years, rapidly trigger his memory of who I am—he held me in good stead -- and I could get an on-tape detailed interview with him at any time.
Point is.… I have a standing offer to create detailed and theoretically competent—thus relevant interviews and discussions -- documentaries, edit them professionally, make them available on DVD, or trnascode them for someone’s branded You Tube channel (like MIRI, for example.)
I got this idea, when I was watching an early interview at Google with Kurzweil, by some 2x year-old bright-eyed google-ite employee, who was asking the most shallow, immature, clueless questions! (I thought at the time—“jeeze, is this the best they can find to plumb Kurzweil’s thinking on the future of AI at Google, or in general?”)
Anyway, no one has taken me up on that offer to create what could be terrific documentary-interviews, either. I have a 6 thousand dollar digital camera and professional editing software to do this with, not some pocket camera.
But more importantly, I have 25 years of detailed study of the mind body problem and AI, and I can draw upon that to make interviews that COUNT, are unique, and relevant, and unparalleled.
AI is my life’s work (that, and the co-entailed problem of mind-body theory generally.) I have been working hard to supplant the Turing test with something that tests for consciousness, instead of relies on the positiivistic denial of the existence of consciousness qua consciousness, beyond behavior. That test came out of an intellectual soil that was dominated with positivism, which in turn was based on a mistaken and defective attempt to metabolize the Newtonian to Quantum phsical transition.
It’s partly based on a scientific ontology that is fundamentally false, and has been demonstrably so for 100 years—Newton’s deterministic clockwork universe model that has no room for “consciousness”, only physical behavior—and partly based on an incomplete attempt to intellectually metabolize the true lessons of quantum theory (please see Henry Stapp’s papers , on his “stapp files” LBL website, for a crystal clear set of expositions of this point.)
No takers yet. So maybe I will have to go kickstarter too, and do these documentaries myself, on my own branded you Tube channel. (It will be doing a great service to countless thinkers to have GOOD q and a with their peers. I am not without my own original questions about their theories, that I would like to ask, as well.)
Seems easier if I could get an exisitng organization like MIRI or even AAAI to sponsor my work, however. (I’d also like to cover the AAAI turing test conference in January in Texas, and do this, but need sponsorship at this point, because I am not independently wealthy. I am forming a general theory, from which I think the keynote speaker’s Turing Test 2 “Lovelace 2.0” might actually be a derivable correllate.)